Specifically, tied up over the top of an airplane. While being held at gunpoint. While the plane is on fire. And while another airplane strafes the crashing airplane with more gunfire.
Posts authored by Kevin Yong
Not as easy as it looks
To paraphrase that old quip about Ginger Rogers, the Blonde in a Red Dress not only had to do her own stunts on a sinking rowboat on the open seas, but she apparently had to do it while falling backwards and in high heels.
Out on the wild frontier
Horror, Romance, and now Westerns? The ever-versatile Blonde in a Red Dress proves she’s not just a one-trick-pony.
Jane Wanted More!
Was “Jane” the name of the blonde in red? Or perhaps Jane was one of the other brunettes on the cover? Whoever Jane was, she wanted more! And so did the fans!
Having survived her eerie “tales of fantasy and suspense”, she moved on to star in “intimate stories of real love” and proved herself adaptable to a wide range of titles and genres!
And thus began the recurring adventures of The Blonde in a Red Dress: the most prolific comic book cover gal of the Golden Age!
Hold That Pose
The blonde in a red dress soon proved herself popular enough to warrant a return appearance!
Her boyfriend didn’t. (Unless maybe he ended up as one of the skulls. Comic book cover modeling is such a high-risk profession.)
An Eerie Replacement
The new golden-haired cover girl could strike a pose just as well as her predecessor, and she quickly proved herself adept at facing down the various monsters that came with the job.
Sadly, the same couldn’t be said of her boyfriend.
An Eerie Beginning
It began innocently enough, with a raven-haired comic book cover model running afoul of a mummy’s curse and thus requiring an understudy to take her place…
A note for new readers
Welcome to The “Blonde in a Red Dress” cover gallery, the online showcase of the hardest working cover girl of the Golden Age of comics! For the full story behind the blog, see the About page.
As for the cover girl herself, her origins are shrouded in mystery. Perhaps it began as a generic “house style” imposed on the cover artists. Or perhaps certain default color combinations just made for more dynamic covers. Or maybe the artists simply liked drawing women in red dresses with shoulder-length blonde hair. But whatever the reason, the Blonde In A Red Dress appeared again and again, across dozens of titles and genres from virtually every Golden Age publisher! Click here to start from the beginning of our gallery.
